Not Now, Bernard: Board Book: 1

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Think about this: If the story was just about a naughty boy being eaten by a monster and made no mention of his parents' neglect of him, we would probably jump at the chance to read it to our children, in the hope it would encourage them to behave themselves. Drama activity: Jeremy Kyle style show- have Bernard and his mum and dad and get the audience to ask them questions.

Beautifully written and illustrated - David McKee also created the wonderful Mr Benn - this works really well as a picture book (the monster is quite thrilling and scary to kids) but I found it incredibly sad, as an adult, to read.Business investment has been flat since the referendum, in large part because the political climate has been so unpredictable. Free trade deals with non-European states that were meant to compensate for the loss of continental custom have had negligible impact. For at least one more week, British politics is contained in that sealed chamber where there is a Boris legacy to celebrate, where the solution to poverty is corporate tax cuts, where the solution to everything is tax cuts, where tax cuts have no impact on public service budgets, where life outside the EU is all upside and can only get better.

The monster goes into the house and tries to attract the parents' attention but gets the same reaction from them, completely oblivious to the monster replacing their son.In the new edition, Bernard's parents are now preoccupied by their digital devices, on top of the housework and D. Presumably this sort of beastial attack would have generated screams, Bernards monster has some business-looking sharp teeth that protrude from his mouth. This book explores a young boys struggle to gain attention from his parents as he is repeatedly told 'not now, Bernard'. Sometimes when people are too busy they really don't notice what is around them and what is happening. Children get it, it's not scary, just funny, the illustrations are very clear and the characters are brilliant.

Bernard's got a problem: he's found a monster in the back garden but his mum and dad are just too busy to notice.

Foreign secretaries and wannabe prime ministers used to avoid imbecilities of that kind before Boris Johnson contaminated both offices with his marauding insouciance. There is a book that foresaw with precision this summer’s Conservative leadership contest, although it was first published in 1980.

My favourite bit is the look on the monster's face when he realises he has doomed himself to a life of suburban maltreatment.Very funny, written very dryly and is a sobering lesson to all us busy parents who sometimes get distracted! This text repeats the phrase 'not now, Bernard' throughout the book which as a reader made me feel sorry for Bernard because he wasn't being listened to by his parents. That tendency was on display at the hustings event last week, where Truss was asked whether the French president, Emmanuel Macron, is friend or foe. By 2019, she was arguing in private that Britain could safely walk away from the EU without a comprehensive deal.